You think you love music? You have nothing on the Ancient Greek obsession. Every aspect of Greek life was punctuated by song: history, poetry, theater, sports and even astronomy. In fact, music was so important to Greek philosopher Plato...

Building STEM centers that foster creativity doesn't have to be complicated. All you need is a smart layout that provides designated areas stocked with a wide variety of everyday materials. Here are seven easy STEM centers to include in...

Communication involves listening and speaking as well as reading and writing clearly and creatively, and technology provides opportunities for expressing yourself digitally. In these Quests, students learn about different software...

A look at the human side of science. Take a look at how background and motivation can lead to different perspectives, discoveries, and progress in science.

This unit includes a complete set of science lessons that enable students to creatively explore basic concepts related to air and the atmosphere, air quality, and associated issues, such as allergens in the places we live, study and work.

Listed on this page are the things we as parents and teachers inadvertently do to discourage creativity in children and ideas for how to foster creativity.

In a world where interconnectedness and complexity hold sway, systems thinking offers a disciplined approach to make sense of the world and find innovative solutions to problems. How can a disciplined systems thinking approach lead...

In this task, students use the structure of an expression to find ways to rewrite it. They are asked to use the defining property of even and odd functions to manipulate expressions involving function notation and to see the structure in...

This informative site offers information about the duties, working conditions, skills, education, employment, and salary of an expressive arts therapist.

Contains plans for three 50-minute lessons that ask middle schoolers to use the writing process to write about a piece of visual art. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and...

By studying invention throughout history, this site encourages the inventive and creative spirit in all of us.

You can encourage a child's self-expression through process-oriented art: simply put, art that is based on exploration and allows different outcomes. This article outlines the do's and don'ts for encouraging self-expression and...

An essay which explains what is and what is not creativity. By understanding what the creative process is, you will be able to properly invoke the creative thinking skills from within your students.

Channel your creativity with these writing activities.

When we read novels, authors provide details about the main character through descriptive sentences, events that directly involve the character, and what other characters think and say about the main character. To show what you know...

In this lesson plan students are given equations and are to determine the unknown value to make the statement true.

The purpose of this task is to have students think about the meaning of multiplying a number by a fraction, and use this burgeoning understanding of fraction multiplication to make sense of the commutative property of multiplication in...

The purpose of this task is for learners to sort the same set of objects according to different attributes and to practice counting to tell the number of objects in a set. The teacher should accept any way the child wants to sort the...

This word problem focuses on the Put Together/Take Apart contexts for addition and subtraction. Learners may use objects, pictures, or equations to represent their solutions. Examples and explanations are provided.

This task serves as a possible first student exploration after an initial introduction to the form and arithmetic of complex multiplication. Students need to understand that every complex number can be expressed in the form a+bi, and...

The task has students use the remainder theorem to deduce a linear factor of a cubic polynomial, and then to completely factor the polynomial. Aligns with A-APR.B.3 and A-APR.B.2.

For this task, 8th graders are presented with pairs of rational or irrational numbers. They must state which number in the pair is higher and explain their thinking. Aligns with 8.NS.A.2.

This task provides the opportunity for students to reason about graphs, slopes, and rates without having a scale on the axes or an equation to represent the graphs. Aligns with 8.EE.B.5.

New ways of thinking about text, collaboration with group members, and presentation skills are all developed with this lesson which could be applied to almost any novel read in class. Includes student handouts, an online interactive, and...